Those users can't buy the service they want from the broadcasters. We'd all have much more sympathy for the broadcasters if they were offering a replacement ser

Those users can't buy the service they want from the broadcasters. We'd all have much more sympathy for the broadcasters if they were offering a replacement service for Aereo. You might as well argue that a car companies battery technology is being exploited for free by after market sound system companies. As to the loophole, if your going to argue the spirit of the law was meant to stop companies like aereo existing I'll point out that I doubt the spirit of the law would be to stop me from physically renting an antennae and placing it on a high pole on my neighbors property for compensation and then connecting that to my house in the most efficient way possible. I don't see that in the spirit of the law, so I'd believe if it's a loophole then it's an appropriate one.